US Media Rigged Ahead of Russian Elections

March 1, 2012 - In the spirit of recognizing mobs of terrorists as legitimate national governments before a sovereign nation's true leadership is murdered by US-led NATO operations, as was the case in Libya, the Western media is already decrying Russia's upcoming elections as "rigged" before they've even taken place. Leading the preemptive media coverage is Foreign Policy (FP) magazine featuring an article by Freedom House president David Kramer and Freedom House vice president, Christopher Walker.

Kramer's piece is particularly ironic, because the first round of "rigged election" calls were made last December by "activists" funded by the US State Department through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), of which Freedom House is a subsidiary.

Kramer in his piece would cite this gaggle of US-funded NGOs and the opposition parties they support as a "clear indicator of the desire for change." Kramer even shamelessly mentions GOLOS by name, claiming they are "the sole independent Russian election-monitoring organization" despite the fact that they are clearly not independent, being funded proxies of the US State Department.

Apparently pointing this out, Kramer argues, is defined as a "smear campaign." Kramer then goes on to cite his own organization's dubious, politically motivated work as evidence against how "undemocratic" Russia is before concluding that "evidence of rigging" will lead to a rejection of the results and justification for instability similar to what was seen across the US-manufactured "Arab Spring." It should be noted that Freedom House was cited by even the New York Times as being a sponsor of the "Arab Spring" unrest.

And when considering such "evidence of rigging," already, Russian authorities are investigating claims of faked-vote rigging videos, the type used by US-funded GOLOS in conjunction with the Western media to incite unrest in Russia last December. With FP's article, we see that the Western media has already determined how Russia's elections will unfold, creating the pretext in the minds of impressionable viewers to justify the unrest the US is undoubtedly planning.